Reading this post, please, pray for the reposal of the souls of those who died in horrific air plane crash in Smolensk on 10th of April this month. This accident took lives of almost one hundred people. Those who died were on their way to Katyn to take part in commemoration of a massacre of over twenty thousands of Polish prisoners of war army officers and intelligentsia murdered by Soviet secret services in 1940. May they rest in peace.
Novena prayer to Our Lady of Good Counsel, April 17 to April 25, vigil of Feast Day.
(State your petitions)
(By Pope Pius XII, 23 January 1953)
(State your petitions)
Holy Virgin, moved by the painful uncertainty we experience in seeking and acquiring the true and the good, we cast ourselves at thy feet and invoke thee under the sweet title of Mother of Good Counsel. We beseech thee: come to our aid at this moment in our worldly sojourn when the twin darknesses of error and of evil that plots our ruin by leading minds and hearts astray.
Seat of Wisdom and Star of the Sea, enlighten the victims of doubt and of error so that they may not be seduced by evil masquerading as good; strengthen them against the hostile and corrupting forces of passion and of sin.
Mother of Good Counsel, obtain for us from thy Divine Son the love of virtue and the strength to choose, in doubtful and difficult situations, the course agreeable to our salvation. Supported by thy hand we shall thus journey without harm along the paths taught us by the word and example of Jesus our Savior, following the Sun of Truth and Justice in freedom and safety across the battlefield of life under the guidance of thy maternal Star, until we come at length to the harbor of salvation to enjoy with thee unalloyed and everlasting peace. Amen.
(By Pope Pius XII, 23 January 1953)
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